Lee Wallis, MBChB, MD, FCEM

Professor Wallis is Head of Emergency Medicine for the Western Cape Government, and Head of the Division of Emergency Medicine at both the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University (SU). He became full Professor at SU in 2011 and at UCT a year later. After graduating MB ChB from Edinburgh University in 1993, he undertook his training in the Royal Navy. In 2003 he qualified as a Fellow of the College of Emergency Medicine in London and obtained his Doctorate in paediatric disaster triage in 2006. He moved to Cape Town in January 2002.